Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSPasteboard — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

This class provides access to the pasteboard server, which allows applications to share data with one another. A general purpose pasteboard is obtained using the class method generalPasteboard. Alternatively, clients can access one of the standard pasteboards (general, font, ruler, find, and drag), or create a private pasteboard using the class method pasteboardWithName:.

Data is read and written to a pasteboard using the methods dataForType: and setData:forType, respectively.

@interface NSPasteboard : NSObject

// Convenience Constructors

+ (NSPasteboard *)pasteboardByFilteringData:(NSData *)data ofType:(NSString *)type;

+ (NSPasteboard *)pasteboardByFilteringFile:(NSString *)filename;

+ (NSPasteboard *)pasteboardByFilteringTypesInPasteboard:(NSPasteboard *)pboard;

+ (NSPasteboard *)pasteboardWithName:(NSString *)name;

+ (NSPasteboard *)pasteboardWithUniqueName;

// Accessor Methods

- (BOOL)setString:(NSString *)string forType:(NSString *)dataType;

- (BOOL)setData:(NSData *)data forType:(NSString *)dataType;

- (BOOL)setPropertyList:(id)plist forType:(NSString *)dataType;

// Class Methods

+ (NSPasteboard *)generalPasteboard;

+ (NSArray *)typesFilterableTo:(NSString *)type;

// Instance Methods

- (NSString *)availableTypeFromArray:(NSArray *)types;

- (int)addTypes:(NSArray *)newTypes owner:(id)newOwner;